It's usable, but it has a very old school genre look. It is screaming "Lo-res, 256-color, shootem-up from the 90s." And that's fine, if that's what your game is. And honestly, to me it looks more like the title screen of a game with the name of Allegro.

Well, blatant ripoff of Sevalecan, but here's my try at recreating the source code logo, using Blender. Oh, and I really like the new glow effects in Blender (new as in, it wasn't there last time I used it..)

That's why the A has a gradient (for the motion effect) and a lighter hue (for the happy effect). Alex, on the other hand, is an alligator, not a slime monster The colors I originally chose are also the ones closest to the original. Fortunately for us, any variation on Dennis' sketch is leaps and bounds better than what we have in that link

Loving it. I vote for that to be the official headline for all the Allegro documentation(e.g. in the generated HTML docs), for the official page header, etc. (maybe experiment with different colors, some glowy blue for example).

Ryan said:

Here's an attached version with the original colors and gradient.

http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/592575I like them. I have no objections. Attached are PNG files with a transparent bg at different sizes(256,135,128,64,32).Tomasu: The 135 version is meant for the AWiki.

I think it looks great on the wiki, except I'm not so sure about the glowing belly. It looks like he just escaped from a nuclear meltdown. (Interestingly enough, Alex 3 was "Radioactive Racers.") I like Ryan's coloring a lot better, along with the new nose job.

Also, I think the wiki can lose the chomping Alex on the main page now. (It looks like he's staring at his own butt.)

And finally, if we want to consistent with Johan Peitz, his name is Alex the Allegator which (I assume) is an intentional misspelled play on Allegro. (Although personally, I just prefer it to be spelled correctly, as "Allegator" just makes it look like we don't know how to spell.)

And finally, if we want to consistent with Johan Peitz, his name is Alex the Allegator which (I assume) is an intentional misspelled play on Allegro.

Thanks; I was just thinking about this the other day. I couldn't remember if it was "officially" "Allegator". Personally, I like Alex the Alligator better for the same reason, but think it would be cool if Allegroites switched to Allegators